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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Sony plans to raise PlayStation Plus annual subscription prices on September 6: Essential from $60 to $80, Extra from $100 to $135, Premium from $120 to $160 — Sony is raising the price of its PlayStation Plus subscription next month. The service's annual Essential plan will go from $60 to $80 …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing 3D printing the stainless steel Apple Watch Series 9's chassis to speed up production, boost sustainability, and lower costs over time — - New approach will use less material and be more eco-friendly — Company is trying out the process with steel Apple Watches| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to address a Windows 11 “unintended behavior” that for months has caused malware-like notification pop-ups promoting Bing search to Chrome users — I thought I had malware on my main Windows 11 machine this weekend. There I was minding my own business in Chrome …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Microsoft retires Visual Studio for Mac, saying the IDE will get “servicing updates for security issues and updated platforms from Apple” until August 31, 2024 — Microsoft has announced plans to discontinue Visual Studio for Mac. The latest version of the company's IDE …
More: Visual Studio Blog, XDA Developers, AppleInsider, Visual Studio Magazine, Neowin, and MSPoweruser
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
OpenAI files a motion to dismiss two similar lawsuits from book authors alleging copyright infringement, saying the authors “misconceive the scope of copyright” — Authors claim generative AI is just a “grift” that repackages original works. — This week, OpenAI finally responded …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung launches Food, an AI-powered food and recipe app in eight languages and 104 countries, with 160K+ recipes based on a database by Whisk, acquired in 2019 — It builds on Whisk, an app it acquired a few years back. — As it promised last week, Samsung has launched Food, a …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces a hardware event on October 4 at 10am ET in New York City, where the company is expected to unveil the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, and Pixel Watch 2 — Google this morning announced that it will be hosting its annual Pixel hardware event on Wednesday, October 4.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
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| Reuters: |
Huawei quietly launches the ~$960 Mate 60 Pro, without any advance notice or ads; some investors speculate that the Mate 60 Pro uses a Huawei-produced 5G chip — Chinese chip stocks rallied on Wednesday following Huawei Technologies' (HWT.UL) launch of its new Mate 60 Pro phone …
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| Jon Gambrell / Associated Press: |
A Saudi court sentences a man to death over his X posts and YouTube activity, part of a growing dissent crackdown; his brother is a well-known government critic — A Saudi court has sentenced a man to death over his posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, and his activity on YouTube … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which develops generative AI tools for text use cases, raised a $155M Series C at a $1.4B valuation, taking its total funding to $283M — AI21 Labs, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing a range of text-generating AI tools, has raised $155 million in a Series C funding round led … | Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
JBL announces the $330 Authentics 200, $700 Authentics 500, and portable $430 Authentics 300, the first smart speakers featuring both Alexa and Google Assistant — Three new JBL smart speakers from Harman will be the first to offer simultaneous voice assistants, so you can ask Alexa to start the music and then ask Google to stop it.
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| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 37% YoY to $731.6M, vs. $724.2M est., ARR up 37% YoY to $2.93B, and forecasts Q3 and FY 2024 earnings above expectations — Cybersecurity stock dips in aftermarket action — CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. topped expectations with its results and outlook …
More: Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, and Crowdstrike
| Reuters: |
Filing: Nvidia says the US expanded export restrictions of “a subset of A100 and H100” chips to regions beyond China, including some Middle Eastern countries — The U.S. government has imposed restrictions on some Nvidia (NVDA.O) artificial intelligence chip exports to certain countries …
More: Telegraph, PCMag, iTnews, and Tom's Hardware
| Wallace Witkowski / MarketWatch: |
Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.6B, vs. $8.53B est., $1.27B net income, and forecasts Q3 and FY 2024 earnings above expectations; CRM jumps 5%+ — Salesforce sees third-quarter earnings of $2.05 to $2.06 a share, compared with Street's $1.84
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
In July 2023, the NHTSA ordered Tesla to provide data on Autopilot's “Elon mode”, which eliminates prompts for drivers to their keep hands on the wheel — - Tesla received a special order from the National Highway Transportation Administration in late July requiring …
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| Bloomberg: |
China starts approving the first batch of generative AI services for public rollout; Baidu receives approval to launch its Ernie Bot to the public on August 31 — - Regulators may give out the green-light as soon as this week — Beijing deems AI a business as well as political imperative
More: PingWest, Engadget, MIT Technology Review, Reuters, MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, and Reuters. X: @pingroma
| Ben Strack / Blockworks: |
Robinhood Wallet adds support for bitcoin and dogecoin six months after public launch, and is rolling out in-app Ethereum swaps to all users in the coming weeks — Six months after its public launch, the self-custody offering has begun enabling in-app swaps on the Ethereum network
More: Robinhood Newsroom, CryptoSlate, The Block, Crowdfund Insider, CoinGape, The Block, CoinDesk, and crypto.news
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Seattle-based Hyperproof, which offers SaaS risk and compliance management tools, raised $40M led by Riverwood Capital, taking its total funding to $66.5M — Hyperproof, a software-as-a-service risk and compliance management company, today announced that it raised $40 million in a funding round led …
More: SiliconANGLE, Hyperproof, Hyperproof, FinTech Global, FinSMEs, and GeekWire. LinkedIn: Tarryn Marcus
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
A look at the wave of child safety legislation in the US aimed at age-gating minors' access to the internet, backed by Republicans and Democrats alike — By the end of this month, porn will get a lot harder to watch in Texas. Instead of clicking a button or entering a date of birth …
More: The Guardian. X: @mike_salter, @eff, @matthew_d_green, and @matthew_d_green
Forums: r/politics and r/technology
| Leo Lewis / Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese hackers accessed Japanese cybersecurity agency NISC's emails for up to nine months; experts: China may be behind Port of Nagoya's July 4 attack — Infiltration comes as allies scrutinise Tokyo's defences against hacking — The organisation responsible for Japan's national defences …
More: The Record, SC Media, Security Affairs, Metacurity, and The Information
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| Gabriel Sanchez / Bloomberg: |
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